CB&I to license technology in China for production of propylene, butenes

CB&I was awarded a contract by Shenhua Ningxia Coal
Industry Group Co. for the license and engineering design of
a grassroots petrochemicals complex to be built
in Lingwu, China, the company announced on Tuesday.

The complex will use CB&I's proprietary Olefins
Conversion Technology (OCT) to produce 196,000 tpy of
polymer-grade propylene and its Comonomer Production
Technology (CPT) to produce and recover 20,000 tpy of
comonomer-grade 1-butene.

The complex at Shenhua Ningxia will also use the latest
CDHydro selective hydrogenation technology from
CB&I, which allows the incorporation of different feed
from the adjoining steam cracker into the downstream OCT
unit.

Additionally, CDIsis technology from CB&I will
provide the conversion of isobutene into normal butenes,
which increases the potential polymer-grade propylene
available from the steam cracker C4s.

"Our Olefins Conversion Technology is the most widely
used pathway for on-purpose polymer-grade propylene in the
world," said Daniel McCarthy, president of CB&I's
technology operating group.

1- Mike Salem is definitely right. "most widely used" is a very bold statement which need to submit the supporting reference otherwise it is just a fallacy.2- I wonder what is source of this Olefin feed? is it coming from Coal to Olefin plant Shenhua?

LUIS DA SILVA08.28.2014

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Mike Salem08.27.2014

I wonder if the claim "Our Olefins Conversion Technology is the most widely used pathway for on-purpose polymer-grade propylene in the world" is accurate. I would like to see the data to support this claim against all other competing technologies and mainly UOP Olefin conversion technologies.